Kate Bosworth is set to star in a forthcoming “re-imaging” of cult classic Straw Dogs.

The actress will join True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard and James Marsden on the film, which will revamp Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 original.

Kate Bosworth will star as the wife of a screenwriter

Variety reports that Bosworth will play the wife of a screenwriter (Marsden), who moves from Hollywood to her old home town in Mississippi so her husband can get some peace to work on his latest masterpiece.

But the couple soon discover that the town’s locals – including Bosworth’s character’s ex, a local American football hero (Skarsgard) – have their own ways of welcoming her home.

Director Rod Lurie has written the script and shooting will start in August.